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Hart, Jonathan Locke

Jonathan Locke Hart is Chair Professor, Creative Writing, Comparative Literature, Theory, and Literature in English and Director, Centre for Creative Writing and Literary Translation and Culture at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is also Core Faculty in Comparative Literature at Western University and Life Member, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.

A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, he is a poet, writer of other genres, literary scholar and historian who studied at Toronto and Cambridge and has held visiting appointments at Harvard, Cambridge, Princeton, Toronto, the Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III) and elsewhere.

The author of many articles and over twenty books, he has been writing since he was thirteen, and, for more than thirty years, his poetry has appeared in literary journals, such as Quarry, Grain, The Antigonish Review, Mattoid and Harvard Review. His books of poetry are Breath and Dust, Dream China, Dream Salvage, Dreamwork, and Musing.

He has collaborated with artists on artists’ books like Darkfire, The Waiting Room and Stow. His poetry has been translated into many languages including French, Chinese, German, Russian, Polish, Romanian, Estonian, Greek, Slovenian and Serbian. In 2016, his long poem "The Burning Lake", was published by Proverse.

The above description was correct at the time of publshing "The Burning Lake".

In The Burning Lake, Jonathan Locke Hart explores in a contemporary context the divine and human comedy, taking his inspiration from Dante, but also making and questioning poetry in a world where light shines “on abandoned tires, industrial/ Junk devoid of allegory” and in a world that is and is not real.

This poetry is an exploration of mind, body and soul in an industrial and technological world vastly changed from the tremendous mythological worlds constructed by great poets such as Dante and Shakespeare.

The poem moves away from this “sullen industrial waste” and the fires of existential hell through the in-between and purgatorial state to one of hope and light.

All this is within and without the contemporary world.

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